New Delhi: The Centre on Tuesday has filed a petition seeking permission to return 67-acre acquired land around disputed site at Ayodhya to owners. According to reports, the plea has said that the Ram Janambhoomi Nyas ,a trust to promote construction of Ram Temple, had sought return of excess land acquired in 1991 to original […]

Nawada (Bihar): Union Minister Giriraj Singh on Sunday said that no power in the world could stop the construction of a Ram temple in Ayodhya. “Prabhu Sri Ram is the cornerstone of the faith of more than 100 crore people in the country. There is resentment and impatience among the people as cold water has […]

Nawada (Bihar): Union Minister Giriraj Singh on Sunday said that no power in the world could stop the construction of a Ram temple in Ayodhya.

“Prabhu Sri Ram is the cornerstone of the faith of more than 100 crore people in the country. There is resentment and impatience among the people as cold water has been thrown on their hopes, but a way out (to construct the temple) will be chalked out. No power in the world can stop the construction of Ram temple at Ayodhya,” he said.

The people want the government and the court to find a way for constructing Ram temple, the minister of state for micro, small and medium enterprises told reporters in Nawada, his parliamentary constituency in Bihar.

Speaking on the Private Member’s Bill which will be moved by Rajya Sabha member Rakesh Sinha, the minister said the Congress will have to clear its stand on the matter.

Notably, Giriraj Singh has urged the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Central government and the Supreme Court to come forward and resolve this issue. The Supreme Court has directed the listing of the Ram Janmabhoomi title suit to January 2019.

New Delhi: Senior advocate Rajeev Dhavan, who recently gave up court practice in wake of his courtroom spat with Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra, has reconsidered his decision on the request of his client to appear in the Supreme Court in the Ram Janamabhoomi-Babri Masjid dispute. Seventy-four-year-old Dhavan had on December 11 called it […]

New Delhi: Senior advocate Rajeev Dhavan, who recently gave up court practice in wake of his courtroom spat with Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra, has reconsidered his decision on the request of his client to appear in the Supreme Court in the Ram Janamabhoomi-Babri Masjid dispute.

Seventy-four-year-old Dhavan had on December 11 called it quits after what he described as a “humiliating end” to the Delhi government-Centre dispute case following heated exchanges between him and the CJI.

Advocate Ejaz Maqbool, who is representing some of the Muslim bodies in the Ayodhya land dispute case, said that they had urged Dhavan to represent them in the matter and the senior counsel has accepted the request.

He said that before Dhavan announced that he had given up court practice, the senior lawyer was appearing for them in the Ayodhya dispute case.

Dhavan had earlier addressed a letter to the CJI saying he had decided to give up court practice.

“After the humiliating end to the Delhi case, I have decided to give up court practice. You are entitled to take back the senior gown conferred on me, though I would like to keep it for memory and the services rendered,” he had said in his letter.

On December 6, just before the conclusion of the hearing in the case, heated exchanges were witnessed between the Chief Justice and Dhavan.

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday decided to start hearing on a bunch of petitions relating to the dispute over ownership of 2.73 acres of Babri Masjid-Ram Janmabhoomi land from December 5. The apex court granted three months time to authorities to complete translation of historic documents related to the several decades old Ram […]

New Delhi: In a fresh turn of events, the Shia Central Waqf Board of Uttar Pradesh on Monday told the Supreme Court that a mosque could be built in a Muslim- dominated area at a reasonable distance from the disputed site in Ayodhya. The Board also told the apex court in an affidavit that the […]

New Delhi: In a fresh turn of events, the Shia Central Waqf Board of Uttar Pradesh on Monday told the Supreme Court that a mosque could be built in a Muslim- dominated area at a reasonable distance from the disputed site in Ayodhya.

The Board also told the apex court in an affidavit that the Babri Masjid site was its property and only it was entitled to hold negotiations for an amicable settlement of the dispute.

Assailing the stand of the Sunni Central Waqf Board, it said, “…since Babri Masjid was a Shia Waqf Board property, Shia Central Waqf Board UP alone is entitled to negotiate and arrive at a peaceful settlement with other remaining stakeholders.”

Recently, a three-judge bench comprising Justices Dipak Misra, Ashok Bhushan and S A Nazeer has been constituted by Chief Justice J S Khehar to hear a batch of petitions challenging the Allahabad High Court verdict in the Ayodhya land dispute case from August 11.

The three-judge bench of the high court, by a 2:1 majority, had said the land be partitioned equally among three parties — the Sunni Waqf Board, the Nirmohi Akhara and Ram Lalla.

The court’s remark had come on a plea of BJP leader Subramanian Swamy who sought urgent listing and hearing of the matter.

The BJP leader had told the court that he has been allowed by the apex court to intervene in the matter and is seeking swift disposal of the cases.